Red Phone Boxes
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:57 am
BT have announced a series of solutions to save the iconic red telephone boxes by asking council to either sponsor a phone box at a cost of £500 per annum with telephone equipment maintained in house or buy the box without equipment for £1.
Okay, so the Red telephone boxes with the Red Routemaster London bus is a British Icon but do we really care about keeping red metal boxes on out streets for aesthetic purposes? Especially when you consider that once bought the council will no doubt fail to maintain them correctly and they will become stinking, rusting relics of Empire (pretty much like the whole country to be honest but that is another matter!)
PS Have you heard that when the Red boxes were introduced they were described as a blight on the landscape? That is quite funny but I suppose it proves the theory that after 20-30 years of continuous public service anything becomes a love cultural icon. They use this argument frequently regarding Architecture that is 'hated' by the local population.
Okay, so the Red telephone boxes with the Red Routemaster London bus is a British Icon but do we really care about keeping red metal boxes on out streets for aesthetic purposes? Especially when you consider that once bought the council will no doubt fail to maintain them correctly and they will become stinking, rusting relics of Empire (pretty much like the whole country to be honest but that is another matter!)
PS Have you heard that when the Red boxes were introduced they were described as a blight on the landscape? That is quite funny but I suppose it proves the theory that after 20-30 years of continuous public service anything becomes a love cultural icon. They use this argument frequently regarding Architecture that is 'hated' by the local population.
